Testing with telnet

The simplest method to determine whether Couchbase Server is running is to use Telnet to connect to the server with the memcached text protocol.

Telnet must be installed on your server to connect to Couchbase Server using this method. It is supplied as standard on most platforms, or can be obtained as a separate package and installed via your operating system's standard package manager.

Note: You do not need to use the
Telnet method for communicating with your server within your application. Instead, use one of the Couchbase SDKs.

Connect to the server (connecting to the legacy memcached protocol using Moxi):